Faculty & Friends of the Collective

Meet the leaders and professors who run programs and teach courses related to Buddhism at Union Theological Seminary.

We are immensely grateful to be learning from a gathering of remarkable practitioners and scholars with a wide range of specialties, and representing diverse lineages of Buddhism and beyond. These are faculty members and administrators of Union Theological Seminary, and not of our Collective. We are delighted to celebrate them here, as they play a particular role in create a thriving intellectual and spiritual context for Buddhists at the seminary.


  • Rev. Kosen Gregory Snyder, Osho

    Senior Director and Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies of the The Thích Nhất Hạnh Program for Engaged Buddhism

  • Peace Twesigye

    Assistant Director of Buddhist Studies and Thích Nhất Hạnh Program for Engaged Buddhism

  • Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad

    Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies and Black Religious Life

  • Rev. Dr. John J. Thatamanil

    Associate Professor of Theology & World Religions

  • Bhante Buddharakkhita

    Lecturer in Buddhist Studies

  • Dr. Pilar Jennings

    Lecturer in Psychology and Religion

  • Dr. Simran Jeet Singh

    Lecturer in Global Histories